These leafy plants are chicories, bitter greens that descended from wild chicory, a weedy plant in the aster family that bears a pale blue bloom in the summertime. Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer The ...

Endive is a salad delight that is surprisingly easy to grow in the tropical home garden. Known as endibia in Spanish, endive (Cichorium endivia) is a hardy herb of the aster family, closely related to ...

You've probably seen endives in your produce section, nestled between more commonplace salad greens like romaine and iceberg. Because it's sturdier, less leafy and, to be honest, a little bitter, ...

If you enjoy Italian food, you might have already encountered escarole — a leafy, bitter green that looks a lot like lettuce. Escarole is a traditional ingredient in Italian wedding soup, which ...

Have you ever been hesitant to ask about some item in the grocery store because you weren't quite sure how to pronounce it? I have. It just happened to me in the produce department. I was browsing ...

"I'll have the endive salad," I said to the self-assured, curly-haired server. I felt confident in my pronunciation (ON-deev) of the pale-colored leaves that are a member of the chicory family. As I ...

Ever have a flashback to when kale wasn’t cool (#tbt)? Well, there’s a new crew of superfoods about to hit your plates and IG feeds. We teamed up with Ocean Spray to clue you in on the trends. Learn ...

Endive are a great source of vitamins and folate and make for elegant dishes. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Walt Hubis. Besides looking pretty on a plate of appetizers, endive leaves are a great ...

Braised endives are a simple yet elegant dish highlighting the delicate, slightly bitter flavor of endives softened through ...

I think endive is one of the most confusing categories of winter greens. For many years the only endive I knew was Belgian endive, a vegetable with narrow, tightly bunched leaves that are blanched as ...

SOME say “Belgian endive,” others say “endive” and yet others say “chicory.” In 1984, the late Jennifer Paterson, best known as one of BBC television’s “Two Fat Ladies,” tried to clear up the ...